Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (AC9E4LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions (AC9E4LE02) |
| Examining literature | discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions (AC9E4LE03) examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning (AC9E4LE04) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (AC9E4LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (AC9E4LY03) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts (AC9E4LY05) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex words (AC9E4LY10) |
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